[Zope3-dev] Re: RFP: menu item ordering

[Jim Fulton]

pete at bcmpweb.com wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> My personal thought on this is that the ordering is the domain of
> presentation. So I agree with the idea that ordering should be independant
> of the definition, although there could be hints in the definition.
> 
> The only way I can think of this working is if we made some kind of
> queryable interface to this.
> 
> I.e. Provide a mechanism to query the list of menu items and provide
> custom filters and ordering based on the fields we define for each menu
> item.

I don't follow this,

> What springs to mind (without even contemplating what the data structure
> for menu items is) is that if we had a ZCatalog of menu items (do they
> still exist in Zope 3 I don't remember) that would solve the problem.

How so?

Jim

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